Connections between marine conservation and GIS
Posted 5 years ago
It’s fascinating to see the diverse world of ecology, conservation and marine sciences becoming enveloped in every expanding niche of spatial research. I am now more often seeing and reading the exciting new avenues that conservation and GIS are taking for species, ecosystems and countries alike. Conservation is a constant uphill battle and knowing where […]
2018 App Challenge – Lessons Learned
Posted 5 years ago
The increasing disruptions to daily routines, loss of conveniences, and general disarray caused by the current pandemic led myself and my would-be team to make the difficult decision to withdraw from this year’s App Challenge. It’s unfortunate, as we already had a few good ideas brewing, though when we thought realistically on the situation, we […]
Could the Esri International User Conference use a little more fish?
Posted 6 years ago
I can’t deny it, GIS has played a major role in both my studies and past jobs, but Esri was never on my radar as a place to explore for a future career because of where my academic background stems from. Let me provide you with some context. I’m an aspiring ecologist and conservation biologist, […]
About Me
Posted 6 years ago
Hi I’m Kendra and this is my second time as an ECCE student associate at SFU. My academic interests primarily revolve around GIScience, Environmental Science (the applied biology side of things), and how these two intersect to find solutions to spatially-based environmental problems. My current research focuses on how meaningful analyses can be carried out […]
Esri UC 2019 under the lens of an SFU Geography Grad
Posted 6 years ago
During July 8-12th 2019 I had the amazing opportunity to attend and present a paper at the 2019 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) in San Diego. At the Conference, I had the chance to meet some of the other 19,000 attendees from around the globe who make the Esri UC the largest GIS conference in […]
My Experience as a Student Associate with the SFU ECCE
Posted 6 years ago
In addition to writing about his experiences as an ECCE student associate below, Anthony Lee was also a member of the winning App Challenge team last year, and joined us along with his teammates at the Esri International User Conference in 2018. You can view their team profile and live app demo hosted from the […]
Highlights at SFU: the SIS certificate program and the Esri Canada Higher Education GIS Scholarship
Posted 6 years ago
This is a guest post by Cam McCulloch, the 2019 recipient of the Esri Canada Higher Education GIS Scholarship at Simon Fraser University. It was during my initial co-op work term that I had heard of GIS for the first time. I was working for a company trying to predict where mosquito populations would be […]
2019 Esri Developer Summit Experience
Posted 6 years ago
This year I had the opportunity to attend the 2019 Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California with a fellow SFU ECCE Student Associate, Chris Yee. Attending a conference in the desert was a welcome change of scenery in contrast to the snow and cold weather we have been experiencing in Vancouver. This Developer Summit […]
The Importance of Scale (A brief introduction)
Posted 7 years ago
When we look at life from the viewpoint of an ant, and then compare it to that of a soaring bald eagle, we come to the realization that they are quite markedly different from one another. What may seem like a mountain for an ant to climb is just a rock settling in between the […]
mapit.space @ Esri User Conference 2018
Posted 7 years ago
This is another guest post from Alysha van Duynhoven, who appeared recently in our blog describing her team’s experience in the App Challenge at SFU. As winners of the challenge her team (including Chris Yee and ECCE associate Anthony Lee) won a trip to the Esri User Conference in San Diego earlier this month. The […]
